Interview With Google's V8 Author Lars Bak 111
Dr Pete writes "Financial Times has an interesting piece about Lars Bak and Kasper Lund the authors of the V8 virtual machine in Google's Chrome browser. 'Chrome attracted more than 10 million users in its first 100 days. Although that's an impressive number, it still only translates into about 1 per cent of browser usage online. It will be a while before it can compete with Firefox, Internet Explorer and others. In December last year, Google announced that Chrome was now out of its development, or Beta, phase and is ready to be shipped as a pre-installed browser on some PCs. This could rapidly increase the number of users. Moreover, the European Commission's antitrust battle with Microsoft over, among other things, how its own browser, Internet Explorer, is integrated into its Windows operating system may give competitors such as Google a chance to claim ground.'" Interestingly enough Google Chrome is currently fighting it out with Safari as the #3 web browser on Slashdot.
Re:Chrome as the built in? (Score:3, Funny)
or did he mean that you couldn't install IE at all?
Is this the guy? (Score:1, Funny)
Obvious joke (Score:3, Funny)
I could have had a V8! [syr.edu]
Non-tech conclusion: Google should buy Sun! (Score:3, Funny)
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A virtual machine.
JIT.
sandboxing
frameworks
cross-platform capability
bytecode (at least for Android)
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Might as well buy Sun, use their IP and re-implement everything in Scala.Then they'll be ready to take over the world.
Re:awesome! (Score:1, Funny)
Woosh!